The tombola winners of this year’s Vienna Yachting ball, which took place in May on the paddle steamer „MS Stadt Wien“, were family Ficko and their friends.
They arrived in our Marina Kaštela on August 10th 2013 to claim their prize and attend a one week sailing trip along the central and south coast of the Adriatic sea on our Bavaria 46.
Full of joy and excitement the winners came to take over their vessel named Maslinova. The crew as well as our BavAdria team had a great time meeting each other.
We look forward to welcoming the Ficko family and their friends again.
ORC World Championship – Marina Kaštela crew wins Offshore race – Excellent seventh position overall
This year’s ORC Sailing World Championship took place in Ancona, Italy between 22.06. and 29.6. Among the 110 top boats that participated twenty of them are reputable in professionals sailing circles, such as our own Marina Kaštela crew, which led by skipper Armano Zekan.
There were local storms throughout the whole week which passed over the fleet a number of times. There were a total of six Windward/leeward course sailing races and two offshore races.
Here’s a brief overview of our skipper Armano:
“The first day of sailing, conditions allowed only one Windward/leeward course sailing where our boat ranked 12th. The day began and ended with rain and strong storms. The next day, the crew prepared for the 132 NM long navigation offshore regatta, which went around buoys along the Italian coast. Calm and stormy periods interchanged throughout the 24 hour period it took us to finish the race. On the way we had to avoid numerous shellfish farms that caused an exceptional problem during the night.
The short navigation was scored for 63NM, and we finished second. The excellent sailing during the night and especially at dawn enabled us to ultimately win this prestigious off-shore race.
After the third day didn’t produce enough wind for a race, the fourth day the rain bought favorable conditions for sailing. A failure of the electronic equipment resulted in a false start, which meant that we had to return to the pre-line. Even though the result was not good, we made the most out of the situation and had a good training and ultimately reached the goal.
During the last day of the championship it was sunny, 25 knots NNW wind, strong currents and 2 meter waves. These ideal sailing conditions helped the race committee to organize three beautiful races. The wind changed directions and strength during the race which allowed smaller boats to punish larger ones in the final.
Although we sailed well all day in the last three races we took 15th, 12th and 9th place. Summing all of the results in the end, our crew took the 7th place overall.”
Armano was happy about the result and the experience overall: “I have a lot of sailing experience but I never experienced something like this. The weather was extraordinary spectacular, especially during the off-shore race, where three hail storms passed over us. The navigation was a real challenge, both for the crew and for our gear and boat. We wanted more, we wanted that medal, but we shouldn´t be unhappy. Seventh place in this elite group is more than a good result and after all, we are this year’s World Champions in the offshore ORC event. Furthermore, it was very nice to socialize and sail among many world famous sailors. On behalf of the entire crew I would like to thank everyone who made it possible.”
BavAdria Yachting and Marina Kastela were present again with its own stand in Hall 4. Many of our regular customers who use our service many years have visited us at the boat show and we took the opportunity to chat and renew our friendship because they know that
we guarantee very well-maintained yachts,
excellent service and
an ongoing effort to become even better!
Delicacies from Dalmatia such as glazed orange peel, glazed almonds, home made dried figs, Dalmatian wine, cheese and pickled anchovy filets in olive oil could not be missing at all. We wish to thank all our sailing friends and regular customers for the visit and we promise to keep the first-class service at first place! We are looking forward to welcome you in our Marina Kastela this summer again!
A few words about the boat show After first introductions at the boat show in Düsseldorf all product innovations and new products could have been seen at the boat show in Tulln again. This makes the Boot Tulln an unique and important trade fair for Central and specially Eastern Europe. The 42nd Edition of the Austrian Boot Show – Boot Tulln, Austria`s number 1 Event for boats, yachts, diving and the wide range of accessories closed the doors after 4 days with a great track record. The most important dat at a glance:
44 367 visitors – almost achieved record of 2012 (45 598 visitors)
Over 350 exhibitors from 20 countries, first time surpassingthe magical number of 350
500 boats on display
3 world premiers of sailing boats
2 winners in the categorie „Sailing boat of the year“
